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- the historical segregation of advertising and marketing messages from the entertainment and news content around which they are scheduled has been significantly challenged in recent years with the advent of new technologies enabling consumers and resellers (users) of the entertainment and news content to efficiently dilute, skip, or remove these advertising and marketing messages. Since the purveyors of these advertising and marketing messages typically sponsor the content around which the messaging is scheduled, this has proven problematic for producers and distributors of the entertainment and news content, who have sought new ways to retain the viability of their media for carrying their sponsors' messages.
- FIGS. 1A-1B show examples of presentation placement data.
- FIG. 2 shows examples of product data.
- FIG. 3 shows examples of response data.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram depicting an approach for aggregating and disseminating data, and for placing and receiving an order according to an embodiment.
- FIG. 5 is a flow diagram depicting an approach for aggregating and compiling data according to an embodiment.
- FIG. 6 is a flow diagram depicting an approach for aggregating, compiling, and disseminating data according to an embodiment.
- FIG. 7 is a flow diagram depicting an approach for presenting a product and placing an order according to series of possible embodiments.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram depicting an approach for aggregating and disseminating data according to an embodiment.
- FIG. 9 is a flow diagram depicting an approach for aggregating and disseminating data according to an embodiment in which the dissemination occurs within the presentation described by the data.
- FIGS. 10A-10B shows a sample implementation for presentation meta-data structure.
- FIG. 11 is a flow diagram depicting an approach for aggregating and disseminating data according to an embodiment in which presentation producers initially input presentation placement data.
- FIG. 12 is a flow diagram depicting an approach for aggregating and disseminating data, and for placing and receiving an order according to an embodiment in which presentation producers initially input presentation placement data.
- FIG. 13 a flow diagram depicting an approach for aggregating and disseminating data according to an embodiment in which data warehouse staff initially input presentation placement instructions.
- FIG. 14 is a flow diagram depicting an approach for aggregating and disseminating data, and for placing and receiving an order according to an embodiment in which data warehouse staff initially input presentation placement instructions.
- FIG. 15 is a flow diagram depicting an approach for aggregating and disseminating data, and for placing and receiving an order according to an embodiment in which presentation producers both input initial data and issue the data for users.
- the method for purchasing a product includes: specifying an unadvertised product appearance in a portion of a presentation; generating an electronic database stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium including information describing the specified unadvertised product, the product appearance in the presentation, the association of the product with the product appearance, and purchase information for the product; viewing the portion of the presentation, whereby the unadvertised product and the product appearance in the presentation are observed; and querying the database using an input device to obtain information effective for purchasing the product.
- the method for identifying a product includes: specifying an unadvertised product appearance in a portion of a presentation; generating an electronic database stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium including information describing the specified unadvertised product, the product appearance in the presentation, and the association of the product with the product appearance; viewing the portion of the presentation, whereby the unadvertised product and the product appearance in the presentation are observed; and querying the database using an input device to obtain information sufficient to identify the product.
- the method, hereof includes: generating an electronic database stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, including presentation appearance data regarding a presentation containing an involvement of an unadvertised product, product data and an association between the presentation appearance data and the product data.
- the system for purchasing a product includes: means for specifying an unadvertised product appearance in a portion of a presentation to obtain a product description; an electronic database stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium including information describing the specified unadvertised product, the product appearance in the presentation, the association of the product with the product appearance, and purchase information for the product; means for viewing the portion of the presentation, whereby the unadvertised product and the product appearance in the presentation are observed; and an input device for querying the database to obtain information effective for purchasing the product.
- the system for identifying a product includes: means for specifying an unadvertised product appearance in a portion of a presentation; an electronic database stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium including information describing the specified unadvertised product, the product appearance in the presentation, and the association of the product with the product appearance; means for viewing the portion of the presentation, whereby the unadvertised product and the product appearance in the presentation are observed; an input device for querying the database to obtain information sufficient to identify the product.
- the system hereof includes: an electronic database stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium including presentation appearance data regarding a presentation containing an involvement of an unadvertised product; product data, and an association between the presentation appearance data and the product data.
- the non-transitory computer-readable medium includes program instructions for: specifying an unadvertised product appearance in a portion of a presentation; generating an electronic database including information describing the specified unadvertised product, the product appearance in the presentation, the association of the product with the product appearance, and purchase information for the product; viewing the portion of the presentation, whereby the unadvertised product and the product appearance in the presentation are observed; and querying the database using an input device to obtain information effective for purchasing the product.
- the non-transitory computer-readable medium includes program instructions for: specifying an unadvertised product appearance in a portion of a presentation; generating an electronic database describing the specified unadvertised product, the product appearance in the presentation, and the association of the product with the product appearance; viewing the portion of the presentation, whereby the unadvertised product and the product appearance in the presentation are observed; and querying the database using an input device to obtain information effective for identifying the product.
- Benefits and advantages of the present invention include, but are not limited to, a viewer of a presentation being able to witness a presentation-product connection for an unadvertised product, research the product online, and place an order for the product using an input device, without the requirement that the product be advertised in the presentation, which would degrade the artistic or objective integrity of the presentation.
- Approaches are used to address situations when a user would not have sufficient information directly about a product to be able to find the product and/or to purchase the product.
- the user may only have sufficient information specifically about a product from observation of product involvement in a presentation to be able to identify a general class that the product may be associated with but not the particular product itself.
- a user may only know that the product was a pair of sunglasses used or referred to in a presentation observed by the user, but the user could not describe the sunglasses in any sufficient detail to find further information about the sunglasses including possibly purchasing information.
- Sources for this information can be the producers and creators of the presentations themselves, who currently do not have consistent or efficient methods for aggregating, storing, and disseminating this information.
- production “Stylists” still compile hand-written information about props and wardrobe for each scene into a 3-ring binder and attach a Polaroid picture for reference.
- Such recordkeeping practices do not comprise a reliable and efficient process which can be leveraged to publish product data for easy access by interested users of entertainment and news presentations.
- data is synonymous with “information”, and refers to any information that can be aggregated and subsequently disseminated.
- FIGS. 1-3 list an exemplary implementation of a definition of data, but data is not limited to this example.
- Data can include text strings as stored digitally on a computer, but may also include entire media files—for example film clips displaying a product or scene from a television program or film.
- Data may also include actual machine-readable commands which are stored in physical or virtual media for distribution 610 —for example code which instructs a decoding and displaying device such as a television's set-top box to request permission from the on-screen display to display images from a set of instructions to follow in the data stream.
- data can be a set of instructions intended to be relayed by the decoding and displaying device such as a television set-top box through a wireless or serial cable transport mechanism to another device—for example, a nearby lamp.
- Examples of data stored as text strings on a computer include presentation data, product data, issuance data, and response data.
- Presentation data describe where, when, how, and why a product appeared or will appear in a presentation. More specific examples of presentation data are listed in FIGS. 1A-1B .
- Product data describe a product. More specific examples of product data are listed in FIG. 2 .
- Issuance data describes the manner in which a product opportunity was made available to users. Additionally, in implementations, issuance involves inserting data into the presentation itself, which serves two purposes—to facilitate a product opportunity synchronous with its presentation in the same medium, and also to facilitate the transport of machine-readable commands.
- Product opportunities must include as many presentation and product data points as required so that an average user can generally identify the presentation from which the product came, and can distinguish the product itself from a similar product in the same product market from; for example, a competitor's offering.
- product opportunities include product listings in an online or print catalog (e.g. shopping.com and Montgomery Ward's), online retail establishments (for example toysrus.com), visual displays in brick and mortar retail establishments (for example Barnes and Noble), print advertisements in magazines and newspapers (for example, the San Francisco Chronicle), direct mail (for example, a bulk rate postcard sent via United States Postal Service), radio ads (for example, a 10 second spot on a radio station in Memphis), television commercials (for example, a 30 second spot on a local affiliate of a national broadcaster in San Francisco), automated Interactive Voice Response phone systems, telephone customer service representative scripts, and billboard advertising.
- an online or print catalog e.g. shopping.com and Montgomery Ward's
- online retail establishments for example toysrus.com
- visual displays in brick and mortar retail establishments for example Barnes and Noble
- print advertisements in magazines and newspapers for example, the San Francisco Chronicle
- direct mail for example, a bulk rate postcard sent via United States Postal Service
- radio ads for example, a 10 second spot on a radio station in Memphis
- Product opportunities are usually grouped according to the presentation or presentation class to which they occur (for example, General Hospital is a presentation within the soap opera presentation class, so a product opportunity associated with General Hospital may appear in the context of General Hospital or Soap Operas).
- Product opportunities may be targeted to specific users based on the targeting of the presentation and/or the characteristics of the users. In some cases, opportunities must be approved by authorities representing the presentation, the product, or both. Issuance data describes each of these attributes of product opportunities as applicable.
- the term “presentation” includes venues associated with entertainment, news presentation, education or other purposes.
- Some examples of “entertainment” include television shows (e.g. action/adventure, animated, anthology, cartoons, children's, comedy, cop/detective, courtroom/legal, drama, educational, game, infomercial, medical, music, sci-fi, fantasy, situation comedies, sports, talk/variety shows), films (e.g. feature, documentary, and short films), sports, music, theatrical plays, opera, video games, and live stand-up comedy.
- components of each type are implied by “entertainment”—such as scenes in plays, acts in operas, locations in films, sets in television shows.
- “news” include political commentary programs, televised political events, television advertisements, and news broadcasts.
- “Presentation” refers to the manner in which the entertainment, news, education, or other content is distributed—whether live and in-person (e.g. music concert, sporting event, political rally, opera, theatrical play, television program taping), or whether an electronic medium broadcast live (via radio, television, film, telephone, wireless network, or internet) or distributed as a recorded asset stored in non-volatile Random Access Memory of a tape, other magnetic medium, or optical medium.
- a “product opportunity” is explicit information which reveals a presentation-product connection or an association between product data and presentation placement data, and includes information on how to learn more about the connection, or the product whether through inquiry, referral, or purchase. For example, on toysrus.com an item may appear which includes digital text which reads “click here to purchase the same teddy bear Michelle totes around in ‘Full House’”.
- presentation instructions refer to presentation data which are treated as explicit instructions as to how to accomplish a task.
- the instructions may indicate, for example, that certain apparel (identified by brand, make, and model) be worn by certain visible actors in specific scenes in an entertainment presentation.
- a presentation instruction may read: “Ted Danson playing Sam must wear a Charter Club striped Rugby shirt while tending bar in scene 2 of Cheers episode #13”.
- a “network” by which presentation-product-response and presentation-product data are aggregated and disseminated refers to any communications network—such as a telecommunications network, wireless network, an environment of networked computers (Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, internet), a network existing on single or multiple computer servers accessible via Virtual Private Network, a network facilitating the transfer of Extensible Markup Language files, and a network facilitating hyper-text transfer protocol using Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
- “online” is an adjective or adverb describing processes or places existing on a network, as described above.
- an “online” store is one that cannot be physically touched by its patrons, but that exists only insofar as its patrons procure data using input devices, for example personal computers, from host servers in which the online store's product opportunities are stored.
- a “means of payment” refers to any means by which a consumer can successfully transfer legal tender through a transaction to obtain goods and/or services, whether the legal tender is direct (debit, cash, check, money order, Cash On Delivery), or indirect (credit card, warrant, option, or promissory note) or other methods of payment.
- Data Warehouse staff refers to individuals involved in aggregating and disseminating the presentation-product as well as the presentation-product-response data. In some cases the Data Warehouse staff also originates presentation-product data in a complementary fashion, or in fact serves as product placement representative for a client, while in some cases the Data Warehouse staff is not involved at all with the aggregation and dissemination of presentation-product or presentation-product-response data. Examples of Data Warehouse staff include merchandising staff, database administrators, online store managers, data input operators, and data analysts.
- association is a group of members who may or may not be syndicated, who receive disseminations of either presentation-product data, or disseminations of presentation-product-response data.
- association members include online retail merchants, brick and mortar retail establishments, interactive television service providers, cable operators, satellite operators, print publishers, online shopping catalogs, media planning agencies, product placement agencies, advertisers, and companies which pay to place product advertising and messaging in entertainment presentations.
- Data may be disseminated to association members either free of charge or as part of a pecuniary transaction—the latter of which may be a one-time-only transaction, or an installment payment proffered via a subscription agreement. Dissemination of data to the association may be governed in tiered licensing agreements through which different sets of presentation-product or presentation-product-response data are sold to different association members.
- a “user” refers to any entity which interacts with issued presentation-product data, or has the opportunity to do so, and as a consequence of this interaction or potential to interact, generates response data.
- Examples of “users” include individuals exploiting the product opportunity (purchase, inquiry, and/or referral), individuals with access to the product opportunity (whether online, watching television, living in households with telephones, or living in physical proximity to a live event), resellers, and automated data retrieval services.
- FIG. 4 an exemplary implementation of a system 100 for aggregating and disseminating data, and for placing and receiving an order is depicted 100 .
- Presentation staff inputs presentation and product data 102 .
- Data warehouse staff using input devices, also input additional presentation and product data, and after procuring any required approvals concerning the product opportunity, issue data 104 .
- the presentation described in the presentation-product data occurs 106 .
- the user witnesses the presentation-product connection, researches it online, and places an order for the product using an input device—which can include a personal computer (logged into an online store), telephone, interactive television application (using the remote control), or a personal digital assistant 108 .
- the issuance data for the order will be modified in real-time by promotions or coupon codes, and the order itself may be modified through item cross/up selling which leverages dynamic managed content.
- the user may be presented with a “10% off” coupon which enables the user to deduct 10% of the total purchase price from the order total for the product to which it refers.
- financial transactions placed online benefit from secure checkout and easy catalog navigation.
- the credit card number is submitted into an online form presented by a central server, the contents of which are retrieved and/or submitted via secure hypertext transfer protocol.
- the credit card information is stored neither in the backend infrastructure, nor in a file resident on the user's computer (for example, a “cookie”).
- request for payment is made to the financial clearinghouse required to complete the transaction (bank, credit bureau, etc) 110 , or direct means of payment are submitted.
- the order is forwarded to a fulfillment entity for fulfillment 112 .
- the data warehouse staff will have taken a position in the inventory and will fulfill the order directly, while in other cases the data warehouse staff will process the financial transaction and product details will be forwarded to an outside vendor for fulfillment. In other cases the data warehouse staff will forward both the financial and transaction details to an outside vendor for fulfillment, and in still other cases, no transaction details are forwarded, but the user is transferred to an outside merchant who then requests and accepts all of the transaction details from the user.
- presentation staff 202 input presentation and product data via input devices, which can include an online form 204 , file upload to an online destination 206 , upload via Personal Digital Assistant/tablet computer synchronization 208 , telephone connected directly to the network (using an Interactive Voice Response system) 210 , or telephone answered by a customer service representative who in turn inputs the data via network 212 .
- the presentation and placement data is submitted via the network to the backend infrastructure and data warehouse 214 .
- This presentation data may also include pre-approvals from authorities representing the presentation, product, or both. Thus multiple means by which presentation staff can submit data are depicted 200 .
- data warehouse staff retrieves 302 the presentation-placement data input by presentation staff 200 , and adds additional presentation-placement data as necessary 304 .
- the data added in this step is descriptive category-level data used to merge multiple products and multiple placements and multiple presentation-product data sets together during analysis 116 .
- Other scenarios of this implementation 300 will include additional data required to complete a minimum required threshold of information either for purposes of distribution to an association 506 or issuance for users 508 .
- the data warehouse staff will use input devices such as an online form, a file upload process also on computer, or through personal digital assistant or automated telephone Interactive Voice Response system 306 .
- the additional presentation-product data is transmitted over the network to a backend infrastructure and data warehouse 308 .
- the data warehouse staff will then, in many cases and assuming that proper authorization has been procured, formally issue the data by making it available as product opportunities for users to retrieve and interact with 310 , where the intended users are in this case those expected to generate response data.
- the presentation has already occurred or been scheduled.
- the presentation-product data is issued simultaneously with the presentation event.
- the presentation-product data is issued 30 minutes after the scheduled presentation event. Issuance data describing how the presentation-product data is issued is also stored in the data warehouse.
- product presentation occurs 400 . This is when the execution of the presentation data assigned to the presentation-product data set comes to pass, and the presentation-product connection occurs.
- This presentation can occur across many possible media; including, but not limited to: being seen or heard in a television show (for example, Cheers), televised event (for example, Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade), television commercial, or recorded media played in a playback device connected to a television (for example, a digital video disc recording of “Titanic”) 402 ; being seen or heard in a feature (for example, “Million Dollar Baby”), documentary (for example, “Fahrenheit 9-1-1”), or short film 404 ; or being seen, heard, smelled, or touched in a live in-person sporting (for example the Superbowl in Miami) 406 , theatrical (for example, “The Producers” on Broadway in New York City), or musical event (for example, the Dave Matthews Band at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif.) 408 .
- a television show for example,
- the user becomes aware of both the presentation and product, and remembers this connection, deciding to research this presentation-product connection 409 .
- the user's awareness of the product and presentation will be incomplete—for example, the user will not know the brand of the product, or will not remember the specific segment of the presentation in which it appeared.
- the user's awareness is a function of his/her own knowledge as well as the obviousness of the presentation-product connection.
- the user can have several choices available via which (s)he can research the presentation-product connection.
- the user can press buttons on a remote control and interact directly with interactive television applications decoded and displayed by a set-top box associated with a cable or satellite operator 410 , whether the application is superimposed over video or resides on a dedicated interactive shopping channel; the user can conduct this research online using a computer which is part of a networked computer environment 412 ; the user can conduct this research by telephone and interact with an automated voice-activated system 414 ; the user can conduct this research by telephone and speak directly with a human customer service representative 416 ; the user can send a letter via standard post or courier service to a human customer service representative 418 who can then answer or facilitate inquiries, purchases, and/or referrals of the correlated presentation and product using a computer which is part of a networked environment of computers 420 .
- the order is fulfilled as in 100 .
- the research inquiry may be satisfied without a purchase or request for information.
- response data are gathered and used in reports as in 116 .
- data warehouse staff and/or presentation staff input presentation placement data 502 into a data warehouse. They also input product data 504 .
- the combination of presentation and product data can then be disseminated to association members 506 .
- the presentation-product data can be issued as product opportunities. These opportunities can be either immediately issued, or scheduled for future issuance.
- This issuance data is also stored in the data warehouse 508 .
- the presentation-product data disseminated in 506 may, in some cases, include issuance data 508 , but the presentation-product data will not include response data. Issuance data may be requested 506 in cases where association members wish to reserve the right to provide existing product opportunities as documented in issuance data to users on its own terms—i.e. optionally.
- association members will in fact issue the presentation-product data themselves using their own means, in which case issuance data as input by presentation and/or data warehouse staff will not be necessary.
- association members will have already issued product opportunities for a product described in the presentation-product data prior to receipt of the presentation-product data.
- an association member paying a subscription fee for thousands of presentation-product connections may decide on a connection-by-connection basis whether to include the issuance data as part of the presentation-product connection data; a decision which, for example, may be based on whether or not the subscription customer already issues product opportunities for the same product, but is simply lacking the presentation component of the presentation-product connection data set in its issuance of the product opportunity.
- toysrus.com carries a “Sara doll” but not a “Mary doll”, and toysrus.com, as a subscription association customer of presentation-product data learns that both were featured in “Full House”, toysrus.com may wish to include the issuance data provided in the presentation-product data in its product opportunity for the “Mary doll”, but may decide to not include the issuance data provided as part of the presentation-product data for the “Sara doll” since toysrus.com had independently issued this product opportunity prior to receipt of the presentation-product data.
- the terms of the subscription service joined by the association member will determine whether or not issuance data is included with presentation-product data 506 .
- presentation-product data has been issued by presentation and/or data warehouse staff, it exists as a product opportunity for users. Prior to interaction, a product opportunity is potentially available to any individual or organization using the technological media (for example, all users online), or physically in close proximity to the live location (all residents of Mountain View, Calif.), of the presentation described in the presentation-product data.
- Individuals or organizations who in fact interact with the product opportunity are “users” of the issued presentation-product data (for example, online users who access the online location of the product opportunity, or attendees of the Dave Matthews concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif.), and at the point of initial interaction or in subsequent research begin to generate response data through navigation decisions in a computer, Interactive Voice Response system, verbal conversation over the telephone, or by sending a written letter which comprises an inquiry, purchase, or referral 510 .
- response data is collected and submitted to the data warehouse 510 , and subsequently made available as presentation-product-response data in the form of transactions, reports, or aggregated usage data which is provided to association members, third party order fulfillment partners, or clients 512 .
- presentation-product-response data is also used by data warehouse staff and/or presentation staff to evaluate the success of the presentation-product issuance, both in terms of the issuance as well as the presentation-product connection itself.
- This data is thus also used by data warehouse staff and/or presentation staff to assist in planning future presentation-product connections 514 .
- Modes of analysis of presentation-product-response data for future planning assess exposure, opportunity, interaction, inquiry, sales, and correlated research data.
- Correlated research data could include demographic data appends (as available), survey data, and customer service input.
- Two other analysis examples include category analysis (e.g. which types of products are successful with which types of presentations), and Return On Investment analysis (return on investment as calculated by sales of issued product opportunities or by sales of similar product opportunities issued by 3rd party merchants compared to the cost of presenting the product).
- presentation placement data is manipulated and transformed to be more efficient for issuance and analysis purposes 600 .
- Presentation and/or data warehouse staff input presentation placement data as well as product data into the data warehouse. This product data may or may not also include issuance data.
- presentation and/or data warehouse staff input machine readable commands which may include machine readable commands intended for the decode and display device used to display the entertainment or news presentation described in the presentation-product data, or which may include program instructions intended for an external device or machine.
- presentation and/or data warehouse staff execute commands via online form 602 , Interactive Voice Response system 604 , or Personal Digital Assistant 606 which are received at the data warehouse 608 and initiate data tagging algorithms which define relationships between presentation-product attributes and apply meta-data structures to the presentation-product data 610 .
- Meta-data is data about data, which is to say, a system of tagging data using descriptors not directly explicit to the information presented in the data itself but which can be used to tie the datum it classifies to other like data similarly classified in other presentation-product connections. Meta-data implies a hierarchical relationship between descriptor and datum. For example, in this presentation-product connection presentation staff submit the following—“‘Sara doll’ appears in ‘Full House’ scene where Michelle's feelings are hurt by her friend”—meta-data is assigned to each component of the connection—so “Sara Doll” is tagged as “Product”, “Full House” is tagged as “Program”, “sad” is tagged as “Emotion”, and “Michelle” is tagged as “character”.
- FIGS. 1A-1B One such implementation of this pre-defined structure for meta-data can be seen in FIGS. 1A-1B .
- this structure there are three hierarchical levels of data, with the lowest level including data alone (for example “Sara Doll”), the second level serving as meta-data for the first level (for example “Product Description”) as well as data for the third level, which is meta-data for the second level (for example, “Product Data”).
- meta-data is structured into a hierarchy based on relevance to association customer segments as well as technical implementations.
- meta-data classes are defined according to a hierarchical scheme in which presentation-product data is primary (Level 1) in order to yield product opportunities asynchronously—which is to say, in either a different medium than the one described in the presentation, and/or at a different time than the one described in the presentation data, inclusive of Level 1, 2, and 3 data as applicable.
- Level 1 meta-data is defined as data sufficient to identify the presentation, and data sufficient to distinguish the product from a competitor's product in the same product market.
- Visual frame location is secondary (Level 2) in the exemplary implementation in order to yield synchronous product opportunities—which is to say in the same medium, at the same time as the presentation described in the presentation-product data, and using meta-data attributes which are intelligible to the rendering engine utilized by the medium's display machine.
- Level 2 meta-data in this scheme is assumed to be physically or logically inserted into the digital or analog film for a television program (assuming that the same device displaying the video can display the product opportunity), or streamed synchronously with the online asset described in the presentation-product data.
- the data itself will describe the presentation-product connection in technical terms intelligible to the rendering engine, so that, for example, these instructions can be forwarded to a television set-top-box's on-screen display mechanism, which can highlight the product described in the presentation-product data with, for example, a visual overlay.
- Media Content detail is tertiary (Level 3) in the meta-data structure described in FIGS. 10A-10B , as it expands on the presentation-product connection but is not critical to differentiate the product from a competitor's product in the same product market, nor does it add data critical for the highlight of the product by the set-top box's onscreen display, for example.
- Level 4 meta-data can be used to transform Level 1, 2, or 3 data into useful data structures for analysis 116 . In Level 4 less emphasis is placed on the product, and more is placed on the presentation referred to in Level 1 data, and is intended to serve as a comprehensive technical meta-data structure for the cataloguing of the media asset described in the presentation data.
- Level 5 meta-data in the exemplary implementation depicted in FIGS. 10A-10B , represents a mapping structure through which comprehensive Level 4 data is normalized according to a published library of Media Industry Control Codes, and also a system for using the same tagging mechanism 600 to insert commands intended for use by external machines other than the machine decoding and displaying the entertainment or news presentation asset described in the presentation data. This is distinct from Level 2 data in the exemplary implementation described in FIGS.
- Level 2 data is used to modify the delivery of the display mechanism of the entertainment or news presentation itself, for example by modifying a supplementary display mechanism in parallel with the presentation (for example, the on-screen display of a set-top box which is responsible for displaying overlay content in a semi-transparent manner with relationship to the video being displayed behind it)
- Level 5 data can be used to issue commands to external machines using a wireless or cabled transport mechanism.
- a media control code could be embedded in a set of machine readable commands, in the exemplary implementation described in FIGS.
- Level 5 meta-data can be used in analysis 116 to research how embedded media control codes are used in reference to lower-level data, and also to issue and distribute associated commands across multiple media assets.
- a media control code database could be used in the post-production of films and television programs such that a media control code could be embedded in a set of machine readable commands every time a specific actor appears onscreen in any film or television program, any nearby lights accessible via external interface to the primary display device are dimmed 10%.
- the presentation-product data and/or control code instruction data can be directly disseminated into a media tagging utility 612 which encodes or inserts this data into analog 614 or digital 616 video media assets adhering to industry standards for this encoding and its subsequent dissemination transport (e.g. Application Protocol Data Unit, Open Source Initiative, Moving Picture Experts Group, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers time code, Open Cable, Multimedia Home Plafform, Advanced Television Enhancement Forum).
- the meta-data defines a fixed location for the presentation-product data to be inserted into by the tagging tool, although the location can be rendered dynamically by the media tagging tool as the need for compression in the finite space available arises.
- This media tagging utility is either a stand-alone Personal Computer application or a plug-in to other industry standard media processing applications, and inserts meta-data which is tightly synchronized to the media presentation—for example data which identifies the specific location within the media video frame itself where a product is displayed.
- presentation staff input all presentation placement data and product data, which is stored in a data warehouse 702 .
- Data warehouse staff subsequently issue this presentation-product data to users as product opportunities 704 , and/or disseminate the presentation-product data to association members.
- presentation staff input all presentation placement data and product data, which is stored in a data warehouse 802 .
- Data warehouse staff subsequently issue this presentation-product data to users as product opportunities, and input issuance data into the data warehouse 804 .
- Users interact with product opportunities and in some cases make inquiries, referrals, and/or purchases, which are fulfilled 100 .
- the resulting presentation-product-response data is disseminated in the form of transactions, reports, or aggregated usage data which is provided to association members 808 .
- data warehouse staff input presentation placement instructions 902 , which must be stored and rendered accessible to presentation staff prior to the chronological occurrence of the presentation they describe. Similarly, the data warehouse staff inputs product data to complete the presentation-product data input into the data warehouse 902 . Presentation staff then accesses the data warehouse and retrieve the presentation placement instructions as well as the product data, which constitute the presentation-product data 904 . Next, presentation staff fulfills the presentation placement instructions by placing the product in the presentation according to the specified instructions 906 , ensuring that at the time of the presentation occurrence described by the presentation instructions, the presentation-product data will be validated by the fact that the product is seen, heard, mentioned, smelled, or felt as per the presentation placement instructions.
- data warehouse staff input presentation placement instructions 1002 , which must be stored and rendered accessible to presentation staff prior to the chronological occurrence of the presentation they describe. Similarly, the data warehouse staff inputs product data to complete the presentation-product data input into the data warehouse 1002 . Presentation staff then accesses the data warehouse and retrieve the presentation placement instructions as well as the product data, which constitute the presentation-product data, and then presentation staff fulfill the presentation placement instructions by placing the product in the presentation according to the specified instructions 1004 . Data warehouse staff subsequently issue this presentation-product data to users as product opportunities 1006 , and input issuance data into the data warehouse. Users interact with product opportunities and in some cases make inquiries, referrals, and/or purchases 1008 , which are fulfilled 100 . The resulting presentation-product-response data is disseminated by data warehouse staff in the form of transactions, reports, or aggregated usage data which is provided to association members 1010 .
- presentation staff input all presentation placement data and all product data 1102 . Furthermore, presentation staff also issues the presentation-product data as product opportunities, and input the issuance data in the data warehouse 1104 . Users interact with product opportunities and in some cases make inquiries, referrals, and/or purchases 1106 , which are fulfilled 100 . The resulting presentation-product-response data is disseminated by presentation staff in the form of transactions, reports, or aggregated usage data which is provided to association members 1108 .
- This embodiment 1100 represents a self-service module which can be implemented as a software module for use in computers in a networked computer environment, and is intended for use by presentation staff.
- signal bearing media include, but are not limited to, the following: recordable type media such as floppy disks, hard disk drives, CD ROMs, digital tape, and computer memory; and transmission type media such as digital and analogue communication links (e.g., packet links).
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